income English · revision 3202

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=before 1300}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /ˈɪn.kʌm/^(Roach et al. 2011)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[inh|enm|income|t=entrance, arrival]],^(AHD 2000)^(MWU 2024) in early use probably from [[non|innkoma|t=arrival]],^(Hoad 1986)^(COED 2004)^(SOED 2002) and later a new formation from the phrase come in, [[af|en|in|come]].^(Hoad 1986)^(Etymonline) Barnhart and Etymonline connect it with the Old English verb incuman “to come in, enter”, from in and cuman.^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline) German Einkommen and Swedish inkomst are similar formations.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ “A coming in, entrance, arrival”: before 1300,^(OED 1989) before 1325 in ''Cursor Mundi'',^(Barnhart 1988) or about 1300.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ A fee paid on entering is from 1549, and a newcomer or immigrant from 1555, both obsolete.^(OED 1989) The meaning “money that comes in from work, business or property” is first recorded in 1601,^(Barnhart 1988)^(OED 1989) about 1600.^(Etymonline) Income tax was introduced in Britain in 1799, during the Napoleonic Wars, and reintroduced in 1842;^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline) in the United States it was levied by the federal government in 1861–72 and authorized nationally in 1913.^(Etymonline) ''National income'' is from 1878.^(OED 1989) In Scots and northern dialect an ''income'' was also a swelling or sore, from 1808.^(OED 1989)^(SOED 2002)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * before 1300 – an arrival, entrance.^(OED 1989)

+ * 1549 – an entrance fee (obsolete).^(OED 1989)

+ * 1601 – money received.^(Barnhart 1988)^(OED 1989)

+ * 1799 – income tax in Britain.^(Barnhart 1988)

+ * 1878 – ''national income''.^(OED 1989)

+ * 1913 – US federal income tax authorized.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Modern meaning==

+ ===Noun===

+ # Money received, especially regularly, from work, [[investment|alt=investments]] or business.^(AHD)^(SOED 2002)

+ # ''(archaic)'' A coming in; an entrance.^(AHD)^(OED 1989)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[incomeless]]

+ * [[low-income]]

+ * [[high-income]]

+ * [[income statement]]

+ * [[income tax]]

+ * [[unearned income]]

+ * [[discretionary income]]

+ * [[disposable income]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[come]]

+ * [[in]]

+ * [[incoming]]

+ * [[incomer]]

+ * [[outcome]]

+ * [[revenue]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}